Glenn moyer
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:32 -0700
>From UC Review, Sept. 24 “…The Spruce Hill Community Association has not yet voted on it but will meet privately to discuss the matter in the next few weeks before submitting its recommendation to the Spruce Hill Zoning Board said President Barry Grossbach. Added Grossbach, if either side has any new information that sheds light on the project then they are welcome to submit it for consideration.” It seems Ms. Contosta mixed up the SHCA Board and Zoning committee. But the rest of this is amazingly bold and contemptuous if Grossbach said this stuff. The community deserves a public explanation from Mr. Grossbach now that this has been published. For years we’ve been reading Penn press releases with claims that, “the community” wants this and “the community” wants that. Then, the quotes provided are always from the same small group of “leaders” in the civic ass. gangs like Mr. Grossbach. These “voice of the community” lies supporting Penn propaganda have outraged some of us for a long time. The civic association power brokers form a closed gang against outsiders from the community. They have no interest or connection to our diverse community, and act on their gang’s interests and agendas only. As reported in the DP, a large cross section of the community “unanimously” and loudly informed the SHCA zoning committee in February that the community didn’t want Penn's upscale hotel. Residents pleaded with the zoning committee! Background: The SHCA was exposed plotting a zoning committee meeting at their small clubhouse in February. A few days prior to the meeting, which became a public gathering anyway, the SHCA was obviously continuing the cover lie of the previous 4 months, that the Campus Inn developers and SHCA had been facilitating a series of open public forums about the Penn hotel all along. Because that latest SHCA plot was exposed, the venue was changed with a few days notice, to 42nd and Baltimore. Like the tabling by PCPC, Mr. Grossbach announced at the conclusion, that since a lawyer had been hired, SHCA would not get involved despite the overwhelming demands from the community for them to immediately reject the hotel or stay out of the way. It was a ridiculous excuse for the zoning committee to make. It was so obviously the typical delay tactic/justification setting up some weasel maneuver at a later date (just like this private meeting to give "unanimous community support for Campus Inn" now exposed in this news report). Mr. Grossbach, we were forced to take you and your discredited committee at your word. Stay out of the hotel issue! Do not have private meetings which will be ridiculed without mercy! Keep your SHCA out of this serious issue and leave this to responsible credible citizens in this community! We all know that your gang wants your cronies hotel, but your associations credibility died between Oct 2007 and February 2008. And why the hell should anyone waste their time submitting “new information” for your private consideration? SHCA has no credibility and SHCA has absolutely no intention of considering anything from anyone outside of your little gang. This “consideration” by your committee is laughable yet filled with “in your face” contempt! Mr. Grossbach, the entire community waited 4 months for you to admit that the development team had delivered false testimony about open public forums in Oct. 2007. Hours before the Feb. meeting, in writing and later that evening orally when the community had you cornered, you angrily insisted that the architect was only continuously repeating little mistakes which should be swept under the rug. I publicly asked for clarification (of what have proven to be lies) immediately after these were advanced at government hearings in Oct 2007. You chose to ignore these requests while I begged for clarification. Mr. Grossbach don’t make the community “shed light” on your lack of credibility more than has been already exposed. Please issue a very public statement of apology for the SHCA interference in this serious matter in 2007, and reaffirm that SHCA will stay out of this issue and all future important matters needing honest community discussion! Mr. Moyer West Philadelphia PS. Grossbach ignores polite requests for information from citizens in the community. If anyone has any respect for SHCA, please feel free to forward this e-mail to the clowns. Mr. Moyer chooses to treat the SHCA zoning committee with the respect they deserve. None! ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.